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Life Today

This is the time of life (67 almost 68) when your friends circle and family circle of peers gets smaller.  The family is larger and more wide-spread, but the circle of those with whom I grew up gets smaller each passing year.  This is 14 years without my Joe, my black knight in rusty armor, and I still haven’t found the right guy yet.  Each year I say I will make it a priority, but I don’t.  When I look at the “pool of prospects”, I shudder.  The good ones are either dead, want to die or are married. I’m the girl who still believes that it’s better to be without a man than to be tied to the wrong one. So…I’m finding myself “without”.  I don’t need a “forever-ever”, just a companion with whom to share things. Sex is important, but conversation and companionship are tops on the list. Impossible, you say? And that, my friends, is why I’m alone.

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What will you do?

What will you do...

1) ...when summer temperatures hit you in the face? 2)...when you have a 90 degree temperature reading outside? 3)...about meals and cooking in this heat? Well, I decided to prepare something tasty. In my part of Texas, with the high heat and monstrous humidity arriving, I am conserving energy and minimizing my daytime outdoor activities.  During the daytime in our Central Texas summer, I cannot stand the idea of eating or drinking anything hot.  I subsist on cheese, turkey pastrami and tortillas/wrappers, cold water, unsweetened iced tea, ice-cold Diet Dr. Pepper during the day and will only eat a cooked meal for dinner after 8:30pm. Friday night I prepared a pasta salad (pasta, onions, garlic, grape tomatoes, shoe-string carrots, mushroom slices, & baby spinach leaves...topped with bacon bits, shredded cheddar and garlic croutons). and ate it with 2 Tbsp of Kraft Italian Salad Dressing.  It was so good that I didn't miss having meat on my plate.  I still crave fried chicken, barbecue ribs and cheeseburgers, but I just don't partake very often. Because of my gastric problems (100% colectomy with J-pouch in 2005) I cannot stand anything that produces gas.  I absolutely love onions, cabbage, beans, lettuce and a few other foods but my digestive tract does not.  To bypass problems, I used spinach leaves instead of lettuce and cooked my onions and garlic with the pasta.  I "popped" the Diet Dr. Pepper can and stored it in the refrigerator 4 hours before drinking in order to release the carbonation/gas. This all made for a rather "bland" pasta salad, but that is the way my digestive tract wants it.  I have learned over the last 7 years to always strive to keep my digestive tract happy.  Not doing so usually results in stomach cramps and/or other digestive discomforts that last for days. What will I cook tonight?  Probably nothing.  More than likely, I will eat more of this deliciously bland pasta salad. It will be thoroughly chilled and the flavors, seasonings, ingredients, etc. will be blended more, making the salad more flavorful. Bon appetit!

[nanasadie]

The First Blog or "How I came late to the blog party."

Well, it seems that most everyone blogs.  The wide majority of them have followers for which they have solicited or advertised in some manner.  I have one follower at the moment (Thank you). 

This blog will contain my thoughts and opinions on things that interest me.  I will talk about my son, grandson, parenting/grandparenting, television that is noteworthy, movies that I have seen or want to see, books/authors, my electronic toys (cell, tablet, laptop, desktop & classic g4 iMac, etc.), country living...just about anything going on in my life. This morning, I will just work on getting this new cyberspace home of mine looking the way I want.      I hope that you, my future readers, will wish me luck and excuse errors I may make in grammar and/or sentence structure.